Labor Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

aside time to focus that can help restore work-life balance. Joseph Fuller: Make time for ‘deep work’ at the office and home People have struggled to balance the demands of work and their personal lives since the emergence of organized... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

copy the strategy without having the underlying core principles in place will always be behind the vanguard. Public accountability via end-to-end responsibility. Societal purpose and values help meet an emerging public demand that... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future labor force."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

new administration began telling our students that they were customers. In hindsight, the result was predictable: As paying "customers," students demanded that their professors respond promptly to their preferences. Professors... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

disclose exactly what we earn. Consistently across the firm’s products, we’ve been a strong top-quartile performer. In Europe, some labor leaders and government officials have called private-equity firms “asset strippers” and “locusts.”... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew The facts of the ever-widening tech labor shortage are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the United States, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Island. You can’t go into a medical office in the state without meeting a CCRI graduate who’s your nurse, your ultrasound tech, or your dental hygienist. And there’s a demand for still more IT support analysts, cybersecurity... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

from an alumnus to the president of The Ohio State University at the time, demanding a reprimand or worse. How times change. Of course, a few years later, president Richard Nixon embarked on his momentous trip that literally changed the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society

Leadership Roundtable in São Paulo, Brazil, as pre-reading for the event. Inequality in Latin America (pdf) This report examines persistent inequalities in Latin America, exploring their historical roots and socioeconomic impacts. The report discusses how these... View Details

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

influence from those valued for non-social reasons. The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Publication:In Studies of Labor Market Intermediation,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

additional demand for its products and services. How, then, should The Home Depot organize itself in advance of disaster events? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309055 Neck & Neck:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
News

What Industrial Policy?

generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2017
News

Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

news content creation business. Creating high-quality news content is an expensive endeavor and one that doesn’t scale that easily. These companies are platforms that can aggregate consumer demand and sell advertising against that. It’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

these trends? Professor Regina Herzlinger on creating breakthrough services, products, and business models in health care Consumers are busy. It used to be that we called health care consumers “patients,” as in “wait and be patient.” But hard-working consumers are... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The large variation in costs among... View Details